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...United States is doing very little to encourage a political settlement in El Salvador," Rep. James Shannon (D-Mass,) said yesterday to an audience of about 300 at an Institute of Politics panel discussion at the Kennedy School...
...Shannon and other panelists, including Bianca Jagger; George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus; and Harvey G. Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity, criticized U.S. involvement in El Salvador...
With Santa Fe, however, the courting was cordial from the start. Preliminary talks first began last summer between Santa Fe Chairman E.L. Shannon Jr. and Sabah, who initially proposed that Kuwait acquire a 25% stake in the firm to make use of the company's vaunted engineering expertise. Discussions eventually progressed to an agreement in principle to buy the whole company. Santa Fe's board of directors, which includes former President Gerald Ford, gave its approval last week, and shareholders are expected to agree to the deal at a special meeting on Dec. 1. Kuwait will then have...
...leasing two or more of their Concorde supersonic transports. If agreement is reached, Federal Express hopes to begin flying small (under 73 Ibs.) high-priority packages across the Atlantic. According to one plan now under study, the Federal Express Concordes would fly from Washington's Dulles airport to Shannon, Ireland, where subsonic jets would pick up bundles and whisk them to major European cities. A package leaving Washington at 9 p.m. could arrive in Paris by 9 a.m. the next morning, despite losing six hours in time-zone changes. On the trip back through those same time zones...
...routes. At the Bed and Breakfast Inn, a decanter of sherry sits invitingly in the dining room and fortune cookies appear on each guest's pillow at night. At the Spreckels Mansion, a colonial revival house saved from destruction two years ago by San Francisco Fashion Designer Jonathan Shannon and Architectural Restorer Jeffrey Ross, guests gather each evening before the library fireplace for drinks on the house...